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How can I get a pointer to the parent of the actor given a pointer to the actor?
It seems that there is no ->parent member in the Actor struct.

that post makes no sense to me, i could probably help you but...can you expand and simplify please, and tell us exactly what the problem is.

I'm pretty sure you can't. However, you could create another actor variable to store the parent (such as a string - store the parent's clonename, and use getclone).

the only thing you can do is something like

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DestroyActor("Parent Actor");

so you can use Parent Actor in any function that needs the string of the actor name.

But, you can't do

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parent.x=5;

it won't give you errors, but it won't work either

I was trying to store the Actor's parent in a global variable when the actor is created, so that I can access it later even in sombody elses event.
I will look for another way to do it.
Thanks